Rise and Fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, The

Napoleon Bonaparte has been too often the victim of biographical exuberance, a satanic revisionism that treats him either as a demi-god or as the devil incarnate. But in this new major two volume biography, Peter Asprey has preferred to treat him as a human being – as a child, a man, a general, a lover, a husband, a king, an emperor, a father, a conqueror, a statesman and finally, a prisoner.